Show Four Little Flour Sack Shoppers Fall Before Lure of Gaudy Toys Child Thief Thief is Christmas Problem I There are arc ways an and there are w ways y to do the tho Christmas hopping but the proper propel wa way does riot Dot include a 0 dour ur sack Flint improper sort ort of shopping shop shop- ping where articles arc scle t with with- without tb out even nJ the price e i is frowned upon by in general an and toy tOj stores in particular Four girls ran ranging in front 9 0 to 13 made the roun rounds s of most o of the depa depart depart- t. t stores Saturday and aDd as a result they had a vice nice assortment of Xmas presents girls had be been n son on onI shopping s by br their mothers but that was not Dot exciting and did not in cJu elude e the proper any any- One the main maID offender hall had been sent for a blouse probablY that two in the sack wera worth far wore ono one by the delivery fI system they the waited for the and ad add cd a 3 second to the tho collection Assortment of Toys But the tho main aim vs for t toys and the was varied Fi dolls two boxes of paints I books candy candi and aud various 8 10 t the he sack tauta Claus e hardly hao curried a more mOrl a j in hi wonderful won non ha hag of toys lInt BUl a as he be expected ed tb they r rc were c clog closely lr watched and that led lell tu tl their undoing ilJa t gr of one o of the depart depart- nent stores m. m H VC lind 1101 our worst trouble in ib the cheap because be cause canse often if f the article is exp expensive I Ithe the are lager eager to return them J I believe c J I voice the thc universal feeling of all the thc stores when I say we wc consider it a problem Too many children are arc left to r a and d wo feel fecI that if just a h trivial hial thing is taken we will be censured for fOl tightfisted tight fisted if we report it to the home Thc child seems instinctively clr to take small things thing which there to be a ocr ocr- taint taintor or of awu away with t and while the thing he he take ma be he often i ij a complete set sd HOI if f the tins i automobile on a 1 shoot chutes Is 5 taken the parent feels cell that it it is is too tin tiny to both er r with and passes Jt it over but the com coni- e toy has bas lost its its val value e. e The pr blem of thieving by discloses as many angles aURes as the fn facets ts ot n a diamond One parent will insist that the stores should not leave cae tb exposed a another nother anglo lQ places the blame on the parents entirely for I it scenic impossible that the children could conceal lo loot t. t And all the while bile the poor little kid kiil dies must see ec the and the baby baLy pianos and the blouses s sand and mu must t go tt 11 their little litHe room room and aud earn carry home with only onlin in ina tion the SU colors the glorious com com- could have been lon rc cd b by no one but Santa Clatis 18 him liui- self ef S |